"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> "Dee Dee" > wrote:
>
>> "Omelet" > wrote in message
>> news >> the pathology reports...
>> >
>> > Colon Cancer can be so very deadly if left undetected for too long. A
>> > VERY good friend/ co-worker died five years ago from it. His only
>> > symptoms were fatigue but he blew it off because he worked night
>> > shifts.
>> > It finally became debilitating enough for him to go to the Dr. about
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Turns out he had colon cancer that had already spread to his liver. His
>> > liver was 2/3 full of small tumors.
>> >
>> > He was dead 2 months later.
>> > --
>> > Peace, Om
>> >
>>
>> Said it before and will say it again: Dr. in Georgetown I go to told me
>> colon cancer is 100% totally preventable. It takes 8 years for a polyp
>> to
>> turn into cancer. Have colonoscopy every 5 years as recommended; they
>> routinely cut out the polyps and biopsy everyone of them. Do the math, do
>> the logic.
>> Dee Dee
>
> Absolutely... except colonscopies run close to $2,000.00 around here.
> If you have no health insurance, many cannot do it.
> --
> Peace, Om

O.K. I'll restate: ...100% totally preventable if you have the money, have
health insurance, and the motivation to get the money, get the health
insurance, and get the colonoscopy. ;-)

f-i-l had the first two requisites, but not the third - no motivation to
repeat a failed colonoscopy -- hence colon cancer; hence, operation, and
rehab 6 weeks.
Dee Dee